Phage-plasmid interactions in bacteria

Didyk, O.A.

Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal 53(5): 97-103

1991


ISSN/ISBN: 0201-8462
PMID: 1665198
Document Number: 368018
A review is devoted to consideration of the basic types of interaction of moderate and virulent bacteriophages and extrachromosomal elements in bacterial cells. Various experimental data confirm diversity of such interactions as well as resistance of bacteria to productive phage infection. Role of plasmids in such processes as abortional infection, lysogenic state, reparation of phage DNA as well as the effect of plasmids on the basic stages of phage development in the cells are analyzed. Possible mechanisms for limiting development of phages as a result of plasmids' presence in bacterial cells are considered.

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